German old style and vintage parts and bikes specialist W&W Cycles has added more Cannonball brand products for Flatheads, Knuckleheads and Panheads.
W&W say they are authentic reproductions, ranging from engine cases, cylinder heads, cylinders and oil pumps to internals such as lifter blocks, camshafts and timing gear sets. All Cannonball parts are precision manufactured to the stock tolerances in Germany, though the materials now used “were the stuff of dreams in the old days.”
The program is named as an homage to the legendary record runs of Erwin George “Cannonball” Baker, who in 1914 thundered across the continental United States, coast to coast, in an at that time hard to believe 11 days. The line also includes leaf spring forks, handlebars, WR-style tanks, mag wheels, brakes and fenders.
The Cannonball engine housings are finished and detailed like the originals, so they will unobtrusively blend into an old engine, with both case halves carefully matched and featuring pre-installed case bushing which are line-bored and lapped for standard rollers; cam bushings are already in place too, reamed to standard size.
The selection includes cases with a smooth, uniform glass bead-blasted finish and cases with an NOS (new old stock) finish. The latter means the finished cases are not bead-blasted but treated in a traditional process, which gives them the appearance of new factory cases that have been sitting on the shelf for 50 years – perfect for those “patina restorations”. All cases feature laser engraved CB production numbers, which are registered and filed.
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